Author & Anchor Text
This actor and musical artist wrote and produced this week's video: This is America.
Who is Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover)?
Simple or Complex:
Whitman's poem celebrates many different jobs.
What is simple?
This part of a CER must always be written as a complete sentence that restates the question.
What is CLAIM?
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech and wrote powerful letters about equality.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This term refers to the author’s deliberate word choice (HINT: D)
What is DICTION?
This American poet wrote our featured poem "I Hear America Singing".
Who is Walt Whitman?
Simple or Complex:
In the video, Glover dances with the students while violence erupts in the background.
What is complex?
C E or R
“In the video, guns are wrapped carefully while bodies are dragged away.”
What is EVIDENCE?
Angie Thomas wrote this bestselling YA novel about a teen girl who witnesses her best friend get shot by the police.
What is The Hate U Give?
Writers use this technique to create sensory experiences for readers, appealing to sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell (HINT: I)
What is IMAGERY?
What are: mechanics, carpenters, masons, boatmen, deckhands, showmakers, wood-cutters, ploughboys, mothers, wife at work, seamstress, or washerwoman?
Simple or Complex:
While Whitman's poem shows unity and pride, Glover's song highlights the division and fear some feel in America.
What is complex?
C E or R
“Whitman celebrates the strength of ordinary workers who build the nation.”
What is a CLAIM?
This dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins features Katniss Everdeen, a girl who volunteers to save her sister in a deadly competition.
What is The Hunger Games?
This literary terms shows the author’s attitude toward the subject, whether cheerful, angry, serious, or hopeful (HINT: T)
What is TONE?
In This Is America, these objects are handled more carefully than human bodies and always placed in a red cloth symbolizing misplaced national priorities.
What are guns?
Simple or Complex:
The tone of the poem is joyful and uplifting.
What is simple?
This type of explanation often begins with phrases like “This shows that…” or “This means that…”
What is REASONING?
This female African American poet wrote “Still I Rise” and an autobiographical novel titled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who is Maya Angelou?
Whitman used this word to describe the mechanics; someone who is light-hearted or carefree, sometimes even a little too unconcerned.
What is BLITHE?
The tone of "I Hear America Singing" is positive and optimistic while the tone of "This is America" is more this.
What is...chaotic, unsettling, contradictory?
Answers will vary. Ms. J will determine correct or incorrect.
Write a complex sentence using correct capitalization and grammar.
Write a claim about the theme or main idea of This is America by Childish Gambino.
Answers will vary. Ms. J will determine correct or incorrect.
This writer from the Harlem Renaissance wrote the famous short story “Thank You, Ma’am" along with many well known poems like "Let America Be America Again."
Who is Langston Hughes?
Write an example of IMAGERY
What is...
Answers will vary
Ms. J will determine correct or incorrect